HP OfficeJet Pro 8600 - Text Gray not Black - HP Utility Crashes - Hundreds of Ethernet Messages

I bought an HP OJP 8600 for home use, hoping for quality and speed, and little intervention on my part.  Using the printer from both an HP Windows 7 Laptop, and a MacBook Pro OS X 9.5, but mostly the MacBook Pro.
I recently started working ten hours a day and weekends at home.  I am printing a lot of letters for business and for work.
I've got a bit of color blindness toward pastel and light colors, so I always have my artist daughter double check my work when necessary.
Both of us were looking at a letter I received from a state agency and then looking at my reply letter from the 8600.  The letter from the agency had dark black, clear text.  By comparison my letter looked to have "thinner" text (even using the same font the agency selected) and the text in my letter is noticably gray by comparison.  I get the same results on both computers.
I double checked all the settings, made sure the print quality is "best" and I even use 98 brightness paper.
The "HP Utility" made by HP for the MacBook Pro is almost useless.  The HP Utility fills up my folders with CRASH reports, is always running, and the Activity Monitor always shows the "HP Utility" using some unexpected extra amount of CPU.
With the poor wireless radio on the OJP 8600 I finally shut it off, and connected the printer by ethernet to the router.   But while looking for computer performance problems I used a packet sniffer on the connection.  I found about 40 HP OJP 8600 messages a SECOND sending the same routine information over and over and over.
My warrenty is up in December.  Do I let it expire and junk the printer?  Or is there a fix for some of these problems?
I appreciate any suggestions, but please, tell me it is a suggestion if it is.  If you haven't tried it and found it to work please don't tell me "here is a solution."

Hello @UThrewError ,
I have read your post as well as your post and thread history. I do have a suggestion for you, in regards to your "quality" issues with your print outs. I would suggest to you, to try the steps listed in this certain guide below to see if the steps help with the quality.
Fixing Print Quality Problems for the HP Officejet Pro 8600 e-All-in-One Printer
If they do not help at all, and to add to the history of issues you've experienced, I would next suggest calling HP technical support directly. My reason behind that would be, if the printer is coming up to the warranty end period, and you have had ongoing unresolved problems with the printer, and presently print quality troubles, it's best to have a technician hear about it. If they see fit an in-warranty replacement, they could make that happen with you before the warranty expires. I will leave their contact info below if you decide to call HP.
HP's contact info:
If you are calling within North America, the number is 1-800-474-6836 and if you are calling outside of the US/Canada,: click here.
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